It doesn’t provide any new feature, just delicious bug fixes including a major issue with Reverse DNS (#6) and IPAddr handling (#5). We also improved the test suite to ensure those bugs won’t show up in the future.

We are already working on the Net::DNS 0.7.x family. The new minor version will include some major internal refactoring to improve performance and reliability. There are also some open tickets we would like to address.

As usual, upgrade/install with

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Net::DNS is a DNS library written in pure Ruby and created by Marco Ceresa, an other Italian Rubyist. Marco started Net::DNS as a Ruby port of Perl Net::DNS module but it eventually evolved into a full Ruby library.

I met Net::DNS about 6 month ago, when I was looking for a more powerful replacement for the Resolv standard library. Net::DNS was exactly what I was looking for my RoboDomain project: an object oriented interface to the DNS world.

Unfortunately, the first approach failed: a weird bug prevented Net::DNS to be used with Mac OS X. I fixed the issue and I sent the patch to Marco. After that I continued to actively contribute to the library and all these improvements are now available in the Net::DNS 0.6.0 version:

• Full compatibility with Ruby 1.8.7 and Ruby 1.9
• Better exception handling
• Huge internal refactoring and code optimization

I know Marco has some exiting ideas about the future of Net::DNS and I’ll probably continue to contribute to help him creating a powerful DNS library.

Net::DNS is already available via RubyForge and Gemcutter. To install/upgrade:

Patches and feedback are welcomed. You can open an issue on GitHub or fork the repository and send a pull request.

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